Radical Self Responsibility
A rant about our collective society and sick care system and how to view it differently. Are you ready to be challenged? Settle in with an open heart.
I’ll say it - I’m a MAHA supporter. Unsurprisingly, I am part of the “unexpected coalition of nutritionists, mushroom shamans and moms” who want to galvanize systemic government change in Big Industry - Ag, Oil, Pharma, etc. to allow for better collective health. My opinion may not be popular, but I feel deeply moved to share this post to educate as well as create dialogue and inspire deeper understanding around a range of these controversial topics.
In case you aren’t paying close attention, there is a new zeitgeist developing. Since Trump signed an executive order restoring freedom of speech and the confirmation hearing for Robert F Kennedy Jr. for HHS, people are starting to talk. Conversations around Red Dye #5, seed oils and other toxic inputs the government sanctions are being publicly allowed.
Today, the collective energy and court of public opinion regarding the allowability of these conversations, education, posts, etc. is clashing with a swath of Americana that wants to suppress that information. Suppress with vitriol, outrage and lopsided, ill informed opinions taken directly from the Mainstream Media as propaganda is designed to do.
I have seen first hand for 20 years, the growing disconnect in people. Disconnected from their health, their body, their common sense, disconnected increasingly from themselves and each other. I have seen how resistant people are to shifts, changes, evolution and transformation, spurring fear and allowing dark recesses of our psyche to express.
I began to awaken to this disconnected energy in early 2020. George Floyd had died, and suddenly, his death was the catalyst for intense outrage, riots, violence, #BLM, defund police, and the spread of virtue signaling via social media. Then, that same collective angry, indignant, social justice mentality shifted when the pandemic officially became the Pandemic. I admit, we were ALL afraid. Spraying down our groceries, handling mail like it contained ricin. Inevitably, factions emerged. Things began to divide when people began to think for themselves. The maskers vs. the anti-maskers. Dividing lines deepened.
Having a holistic food focused restaurant in Boulder, Colorado during this time was very intense. Half my customers were back-to-the-earthers - who could either be hippies or Independent gun toting ranchers who couldn’t be bothered to wear masks or stand 6ft apart. The other half, were my super intense high achieving career achieving net worth achieving intellectual customers that wore three N-95 masks while driving alone, who masked their 2 year olds, wore gloves all the time, demanding their take-out food be placed 6 ft. from their car, and have us walk away before they would get out of the car and spray the bag with antibacterial spay while wearing their three masks and also report my restaurant to the Health Department for spying us (from inside their car) not wiping down our salt and pepper shakers to their satisfaction.
Then that same energy, that same disapproval and self righteousness shifted to the Covid vaccine. Then it shifted to presidential politics, climate change, gender identity and pronouns and again to politics and now resting on RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement.
I see this as the biggest disconnect. From ourselves and each other. These are human birthright issues, such as the right to have clean food and not have plastic in your brain. (BTW: Pdf. link below if needed) This shouldn’t be partisan. Again, societally we launch into hate, cancellation and fear because we don’t know our true essence, our true self. Collectively, we project outwards toward others to feel fear again and again like a dopamine hit to deepen our disconnection and divide. Ever read Existential Kink? This is Existential Kink on a collective level.
I find it shocking that ANYONE would think it reasonable to consume petroleum derived products of infinite variety from your weed killers that are sprayed all over our conventional food supply and your front lawn that your children roll around on, to bodycare products to toilet paper, to baby bottles and dog toys, from our furniture to our clothing, and not be concerned. Because why? The Government says it's okay? We find nothing at all alarming about drenching ourselves in petroleum products, with government subsidized oil companies to prop up an entire industry that is definitely furthering the demise of our bodies and our planet. And if you do not believe this to be TRUTH, it is evidence of your disconnect from yourself, from your body and your deep inner truth.
All the Big Industry work in convenient collusion to co-opt our life, pollute our planet and we are willing to go along. When you begin to add up the cumulative effects of all these toxic inputs in our body, it is no wonder that our collective health is failing. Add to that, the private insurance and pharmaceutical conglomerates that run our health care system, prioritizes pharmaceutical intervention only and does not empower the patient to the enrichment of their pockets.
Fascinatingly, frustratingly, our collective existential fear of the impending collapse of intertwined monolithic systems leads to more grasping of the old. Which stands to further deepen our disconnection from our truth, from our body, from our deep inner self and intuition. Can you see the collective BRAIN MUSH - we are experiencing as a species? Our entire Congressional body is suffering from brain mush. People are collectively losing their minds along with their health. Your literal birthright is being withheld from you by a sick system.
It is time for a collective wake - up call. There are other big parts to this. We are so afraid and collectively gripping so hard to deny the meta- reality. All the super angry people talk about “The Science”. Settled Science. When we all know and understand intellectually that all things evolve and change, right? That’s true. Knowledge should be expected to evolve. We are evolving beings. What we understood as truth back in the 1800’s or gosh even 2021, should shift, as our understanding, science, technology, collective awareness etc evolves. We can revisit old Truths and Sacred Cows with a new lens reflective of our new understanding. It’s not wrong to shift your opinion when you are differently informed.
Another thing of interest I’ve noted. I want to start a conversation around the dreaded “vaccine hesitancy” or “anti-vaxxer" conspiracy theory that builds on these truths that need to be revisited or differently understood. Let’s begin the conversation from a different perspective. Something I have not heard yet publicly discussed, as we are still not allowed to have this conversation. Because it triggers fear and self-righteous indignation in people.
Two knowns:
Not all Vaccines are created equal
Not all Medicines are created equal either. Some are efficacious and some are proven dangerous enough to be pulled from the market.
From those knowns, it follows that there should be the same understanding that the vaccine technology of the sacred cow - the Polio vaccine, is vastly different from the newly developed MRNA technology used in the Covid vaccine. Just because vaccines are called vaccines, and are generally injected via a vial and syringe doesn’t mean they are all the same. Nor that they operate on the same knowledge and technology grid, nor produce the same outcomes.
We don’t believe all “medicines” are the same, right? That all prescribed “pills” that are swallowed have the same effectiveness and are suited for all people? To fool ourselves into thinking the same pharmaceutical companies that make the “Medicines” (Moderna, J&J, et al) sometimes create toxic ones that don’t work, would never make a “Vaccine” that is sometimes toxic, and doesn’t work is truly a testament to how entrenched our collective ability to insulate our minds from difficult and what should be intuitive knowing is. Better to keep ourselves “safe” rather than accept a new truth that would initiate a shift in your thinking.
And if you can allow those two knowns about vaccines to truly settle deep within, it inspires approaching the conversation with interest, such as how do these technologies we call vaccines today really work? And as you allow space for those knowns, perhaps putting down the fear, indignation or vitriol, and allowing in that space to emerge a curiosity and open mind, not a closed and fearful one. Then we would all begin to heal from that shift alone. We can choose to view the conversation around vaccines differently. Allow for an evolution of knowledge that informs your opinion.
So, when you get diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, let's say, the mainstream medical system fights your desire to treat with natural means at every step and bullies you into the pharma funnel. And you choose a different path. You begin to thrive at a level you didn’t even know was possible. Once riddled your whole life with little bodily things you normalize, those begin to recede and disappear along with your disease symptoms, and you begin to see things differently. It’s inevitable. Your brain comes online. You begin to understand the deep wisdom of your body and begin to respect its healing capacity. When I first shifted my diet with my MS diagnosis, I thought I was only shifting my diet for a 6 week “cleanse” and thought it was stupid, these people who had to buy natural toilet paper and shampoo. That wasn’t going to be me. But this is how the evolution to your deeper truth and knowing begins. As you witness your own healing and shifting, it begins to be natural to question what you were told and it’s not a far path from there to being called an anti-masker, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist or someone to vilify because they don’t use a microwave.
I want to make a final observation. The haters chorusing how being “healthy” is elitist. Not everyone has the means to shop at Whole Foods and have a Nautropath, the argument goes. Let me be clear. I have healed myself naturally over 20 years when I didn’t think we could afford it, and I had a diagnosis that were I to have treated pharmaceutically, today I would likely be bedridden, blind, in a wheelchair and deep in medical debt. But I had a vision of myself as a whole healed person and I guarantee you, over 20 years of organic food and specialized natural interventions I have spent far less on health care than you who are tied to your job, your health insurance benefits, multiple prescriptions and believe it's elitist to eat healthy. Furthermore, given my age and I have (the ghost of) MS, I am far healthier than my same age counterpart who eats conventional crap and is on multiple medications. My health cost savings is earning compound interest that is paying out dividends by the day. Did you know, I don’t qualify for Life Insurance? I’m cancelled, for “failure to treat” my MS. That’s how the system views me. However, if I apply for Life Insurance, and I don’t disclose that I have MS, then I receive a Platinum Rating. This happened to me. This is about how rigged the entire system is, and our lack of belief in our own body’s wisdom, not about kale being elitist. Making overhauls to the food system is where we begin because healthy food is everyone’s birthright. Period.
The reason for my rant really, is I want you to see your power to make different choices. I want you to see that this is actually a spiritual crisis. It’s bigger than eating organic and what you think of vaccines. It’s a spiritual crisis because all change starts within, and right now, it begins with beginning to see our disconnection from ourselves, from our body, from our deep inner truth. We actually don’t know how to find our inner truth. It’s been co-opted. When we stop projecting our outrage externally, we begin to heal ourselves internally. This is not about blame. We haven’t been taught to believe in our bodies' innate capacity to deeply heal without mainstream medical intervention. We haven’t been taught that when we are living in the fullness of our innate beautiful, intrinsic, human capacity with natural resources to nourish and thrive, our life has purpose and meaning. You begin to know your deepest self, the one you’ve been avoiding with the madness of life. You are literally wasting your precious life force energy in the direction of vitriol, outrage and lopsided, ill informed opinions. This is about your right to heal, your right to be vital and thriving, this about health sovereignty and a shift in alignment.
Aligning yourself deeply with that truth is a transformation. Guess what? It’s all already happening, regardless of whether or not you believe me. The systems are failing us. And you get to choose. Choosing is the most important part. Who do you choose to be? Healthy and thriving or living in fear and hating others?
We are witnessing the beginning of a sea change regarding health and our environment. A crisis of body, mind and spirit. In just two generations, our collective health has deteriorated at a rapid rate. It is incumbent on us individually and collectively to begin practicing radical self responsibility. Embrace this fundamental truth, it is our birthright to feel vital and it happens effortlessly when you are aligned. A shift in mindset creates agency. Agency = Freedom.
We have a lot to detoxify from… it begins with looking inside. Who do you want to become?
Thank you! For your honesty, transparency, and your bold truths. I really appreciate that you shared this. I think it's high time for us all to stand up and sound our "barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world" (to quote the late great John Keating/Robin Williams in Dead poets society) Fearlessly. I love you, you are one badass woman!
Yes!! My barbaric YAWP xo